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I like pickles... gherkins, pickled onions, giardinieri, olives...
While stabbing them with a fork is fun it can also be frustrating. You probably get one in every three or four stabs.
The pickle harpoon is a spear with a single barbed point, strung on a tiny braided rope and launched from a spring-loaded
harpoon gun, with a ringsight. It mounts on the rim of the jar.
Gherkinnnn Ahoooyyyyy!
Pickle Harpoon ~bz
[bristolz,
Feb 16 2005, last modified Jun 28 2005]
Shrinking Jar
Shrinking_20Jar
no doubt inspired here [FarmerJohn, Feb 16 2005]
Here's your tool....
http://www.google.c...en%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG
....as a freediver, I'll bun any kind of spear gun [normzone, Feb 16 2005]
baked, by me
http://www.instruct...HEPUCI7GY/?ALLSTEPS
baked with the power of duct tape [AlexTheGreat, Jul 24 2006]
[link]
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fun, albeit messy. you know I'm not keen on messy fun. |
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Sorry about that. At least I didn't opt for the harpoon grenade version. |
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My mother has a small barbed-pronged fork for stabbing pickles, but it doesn't have a delivery or retrieval system - I'll have to rig up some kind of cannon/cable. Bun to a fellow pickle-lover [+] |
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Yeah. My grandmother left me some antique silver stuff. There's a pickle fork in it, somewhere, but it's not long enough to reach the bottom of the bigger jars. I want to be able to haul 'em in and flense them. |
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Is the refractive index of vinegar the same as water? That big green sucker may not be where it appears.... |
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..or as big.
[UB] Must admit, I'd never considered a flensing hook for gherkins, but now you come the mention it, those tiny nobbles do look a bit like barnacles, aar. |
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Yep. I've been thinking that since I was about 4 years old. |
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The refractive index of water is about 1.335. <net rummage> Vinegar has a RI of 1.370. That will make it look to be further forward than it really is, when viewed obliquely. |
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By the way, air has a RI of 1.003, contrary to popular belief. |
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//air has a RI of 1.003, contrary to popular belief// Damn. I've been using 1.00027 all this time. |
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mind you, a squashable jar would help with more ordinary equipment - take a firm grip on the sides of the jar, squishing all the contents together and rendering the misc. pickles more vulnerable to a stabbing fork... however I do prefer high tech wherever possible. +1 |
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I love to go watch the pickles as they migrate south for the winter. |
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Pickle Trebuchet
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I hate gherkins, olives, beetroot...* |
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So much so they give me the boke. I don't see any fun in trying to get them with a fork. |
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The pickle trebuchet is a catapult with a single sling, strung with many, tiny braided ropes. It launches pieces of unwanted pickle from its tiny but sturdy base, with a rangefinder, that clasps to the side of the table. |
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Gherkinnnn Awaaaaaaaayy!! |
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*I admit that I like pickled onions - and I really like the idea. |
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Whatever tickles your pickle... |
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Chopsticks with grippy sides would work for this too. My daughter likes pickled onions and would eat the whole jar if we didn't ration them. I *quite* like pickled walnuts. |
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this is beginning to sound like "Pickles Anonymous" |
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I was going to post this after the Shrinking Jar idea but didn't bother. Now [UB]'s done it and LOOK at those lovely tasty buns he's getting! Look at them all!! <crying> They should have been MY buns I tell you MIIIINE!!! <sobs> Life is so unfaaaair... |
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<walks out of idea muttering> he's a tricksy little bubba so he is don't trust the nasssty bubba stealing preciousss bunssss |
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Aw, poor kid. There there, wags. Your day will come, your light will shine, yadda yadda yadda. <pats wags's head and gives him a special croissant> |
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Hunting the great white gherkin. Somehow, that doesn't seem quite right... |
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I always did think that Queequeg sounded like some kind of pickled egg... |
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Awesome, [bris]. Thank you, it's exactly how I pictured it to be. 'Bubba Farms? Wanna go inter th' shrimp-harpoonin' binness? |
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These would be quite fun to sneak into an upmarket Chinese restaurant, I'm thinking. "I'll have this lobster, stirfried with green beans and oyster sauce, thanks." |
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Am I the only one picturing a large harpoon shaped pickle? |
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Apparently. See the illustration. |
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Will it remove flies from soup? |
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Not so much fun as a harpoon: a three claw parts retriever is usually sold in computer tool kits. It doesn't break the jar if you miss... |
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I jest ye not ladeez'ngenlmen' but I have just picked up 4 pickles on the spin from a jar that was found in the refrigerator. The trouble was that it was nearly frozen.
Honestly! It was like shooting fish in a barrel!
Great Idea. Even greater illustration. |
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rather than post this measly idea as an idea, i'll just anno-it: have each jar contain a plastic perforated disc at the bottom, which you simply lift up with the attached plastic pole that sticks up from the center. |
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not as "sexy" or evoking of pirates, but a bit simpler/cheaper. |
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Oh, and UB just lost a smidgen of credibility for stealing this so openly from the anno on FJ's idea. |
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Quite impressed. And again impressed with Bristolz visualizations of ideas. |
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Believe it, or not, I had completely forgotten about the anno~s on [FJ]'s jar. |
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Apologies to [wagster], for the inspiration. Sorry, independent thought, just a few months later. Having just taken a look at the idea I can now make sense of your earlier anno. |
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I baked the Pickle Harpoon, I was bored yesterday |
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Most impressive [ATG] - vicious looking harpoon, hope the pickles were good. Please move on to Film Noir Home next. |
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maybe I could be the halfbaker baker |
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Cool! You could make yourself a halfbaker, too. |
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